The British bobsleigh medal hopes powered by crowd-funding

McNeill, front, and Moore had their funding cut in SeptemberMICHAEL SOHN/AP

“Powered by the people,” is how Mica McNeill describes her attempt, with Mica Moore, for an unlikely bobsleigh medal at the Winter Olympics. And this remarkable crowd-funded effort seems to be going well.

Joint-second in one training run and third in the other today on the eve of competition, the British women will go into the first of four runs tomorrow (at around 11.50 GMT) with hopes of contending for the podium only months after they feared that their push for the Games had been cruelly scuppered.

Junior world champions in 2017, the pair were shocked to discover in September that they were to lose funding because of financial chaos at the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA). The men would still be supported because…

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